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Immigration law protest even calls for boycotting Diamondbacks
By Michael Duca April 28, 2010 |
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SAN FRANCISCO--This is America and you can express your opinion pretty much anyway you want to the whole thing pretty much mystifies me first of all the legislature passed that law on Arizona because most of the people were in favor of it. Second of all it seems to me you ought to find something to boycott besides the local sports teams. I was always a firm believer sports are kind of to the extent that it is possible that it’s above politics or at least an escape from it. Your turning them into the cause celeb doesn't seem particularly reasonable as best as I can tell with the exception of guys who don't report early for spring training baseball doesn't have an illegal immigration problem. There are some legitimate concerns for profiling I'm equally sure that when you consider that their all up and arms over this law and how it's going to be enforced the possibility exists that the law is not going to be enforced at all. While the law maybe instructing to local law enforcement to make this a priority that doesn't mean they will. The police chiefs association throughout the state with the exception of Joe Arpaio are staunchly against the law it feels it diverts resources and it doesn't accomplish very much and all they can do is take the people that they've found and either inform the federal government about them or hand them over to the federal government who doesn't have the facilities or capabilities to handle the huge influx of questionable people they have to investigate which takes them away from the things they have to do like take drugs away at the border or stop gang violence. So it's possible that the law may not be enforced but if it is enforced I'm guessing that probably $50,000 to $100,000 automobiles won't be the first ones to be checked for illegals. People have short memories and part of that short memory has to do with the fact that the wise citizens from the state of California passed a constitution amendment that wasn't a whole lot different from this particular law about 15 years and it lasted about three months until the federal court said "I'm really sorry folks but immigration and border issues are the privy of the federal government and you can't do that it's unconstitutional." I expect something like that to happen here, this is not a tempest in a tea pot, this is in fact pure and simple election year politics. The Giants have arrived: The Giants put Andres Torres in the lineup at a time that was not particularly advantageous to the team not to him during the Giants previous five game losing streak just prior to snapping out of it when St. Louis came to town last week. Torres has struggled from both sides of the plate trying to find his swing and you might be able to hide a swing when your pinch hitting but when you’re getting four and five at bats a game the hole in your swing becomes very obvious and he's exploited it. To his credit he's worked hard and he's found some ways to turn it around and never took it out on the field with him. His defense has been very solid all along and if your remember the Giants last year they really went through a really difficult patch and they were in Seattle and Juan Uribe got that clutch bases clearing double that just turned around the whole season and then he was hitting and scoring runs and after that it just loosened up everybody in the lineup. That was the same thing that happened at AT&T Park over the weekend against St. Louis they had that one clutch hit they've been getting and that just turned everything around it relaxed everybody on the team and baseball's a game that you cannot play tight you have to be in your comfort zone. You have to trust your own stuff while you’re out there and play largely on instincts. Michael Duca does A's and Giants questions weekly for Sportstalk Radio |
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